Discussion/Interview

Bhim Army and Azad Samaj Party took to the streets in support of the UGC Equity Regulations 2026, with hundreds of workers gathering at Jayanti Maidan in Bhopal before marching towards the Chief Minister's residence on February 12.
Omvedt, an American-born scholar who chose to live and work in India, produced some of the most influential writings on Dalit movements, non-Brahmanical histories, and gender. Patankar, a grassroots activist and organizer, has played a crucial role in farmers’ movements and caste-based struggles in Maharashtra.
India will not be able to achieve its SDGs without addressing caste as a background phenomenon and not as a structural obstacle.
Major protests have taken place in Delhi, Varanasi, Lucknow and Bhopal.
Ravidas must be understood not only as a saint-poet but as a social thinker who transformed the experience of caste-based humiliation into a powerful moral and political imagination.
The UGC itself in its assessment put that in the last five years there has been a rampant rise of 118% caste- based discrimination and humiliation cases against disadvantaged caste groups in higher institutions in India.
The Supreme Court's judgment in G. Kiran exemplifies this phenomenon precisely, deploying procedural neutrality to produce substantively unequal outcomes that entrench upper-caste dominance in civil services.
Koraput matters because marginal districts are cheap testing grounds: low resistance, easy enforcement, dispersed costs on vendors and poor households.
This analysis is dedicated to Rohit Vemula and Payal Tadvi, one from the SC and the other from the ST community, who committed suicide because of institutional discrimination.
As India marks another Republic Day, revisiting Ambedkar’s vision is not merely an act of remembrance but an urgent constitutional necessity.
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